Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack types are evolving. Enterprises have always feared the brute force of high-bandwidth network-based attacks, but smaller, application-based DDoS attack types are proving to be more common and more dangerous.
While large DDoS attacks on the network can wreak havoc by consuming large amounts of bandwidth, smaller DDoS attacks are proving that bigger problems can come in small packages. These small DDoS attack types fly under the radar by imitating real user traffic with legitimate IP addresses rather than spoofed ones.